Autumnal Vegetable Respecter
@skylinegardener.bsky.social
Dad, Information organizer, plants guy He/Him
OK, so since I was just reminded of the case, it's story time about my very favorite bit of Social Security disability related case law. When SSA is evaluating a disability claim the very first question they're asking is "are you actively working and earning substantial money?"
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties
Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.
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SNAP recipients in Missouri are required to work 20 hours a week or 80 hours a month in order to continued to be eligible for benefits. That professor is a fucking hero.
Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · yesterday“I don’t want AI to replace artists and writers” is a humanist sentiment but “I don’t want robots to replace delivery drivers” just comes across as regressive to me.
I think economists should be put in a box until they learn to behave like the soft-scientists they are.
Update: WE ARE BACK IN! We can post again. This was utter bullshit on the biggest early vote effort in history. But it will not stop what we're building. No Kings means no kings in the White House or in Silicon Valley.
Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 23h agoUpdate: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.
It has been three hours and we still do not have access to the account
Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · yesterday🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today
Cool woke up at 4 during our vacation. Nothing better than having to wait 3 hours for some coffee in a room with your sleeping family.
All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.
If I really wanted to talk shit about economics, I would point out that the popular deployment of economic theory relies upon a fetishization of “objectivity” such that the lived experience of the subjects under discussion is rendered marginal.
Worked as a busboy at one of those obviously mob-owned hometown Greek restaurants and wrenched my back the first day. Just didn’t show up ever again lol
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2d agoIn honor of the fired lady tell me about your shortest job tenure. I worked at a candy store for less than 2 weeks when I was like 16
you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
Vladek desperately desires the return of the court that compromised our democracy with Citizens' United and struck down crucial parts of President Obama's legislative legacy. reject this shit. pack the courts. bsky.app/profile/mero...
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3d agoi'm sorry but people like Vladek just desperately want the political status quo of 2015 back and refuse to acknowledge it was already Bad
Ai sentience this, robot personhood that. Make a healthy cigarette you wet cowards.
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
In the context of so-called AI cancer screenings — yes, some stooges suggest apps as actual solutions — these and many other related findings, indicate that people singing the praises of such apps forgot basic stats: > the balance of benefits and harms including overdiagnosis should be reconsidered
92 Systematic review of overdiagnosis in cervical cancer screening: how should we define overdiagnosis in cervical cancer screening?
Objectives Cervical cancer screening is a common strategy for cancer control worldwide. Although its real target is invasive cervical cancer, the incidence has not been high in developed countries, an...
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Fall is garden cleanup time, but that doesn't mean you should clear everything away.
What to cut back and what to leave standing in your garden's fall cleanup
Fall is garden cleanup time, but that doesn't mean you should clear everything away. Leaving certain perennials standing over winter can benefit birds and insects.
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Detailed study of the dissemination of the spinach decimal point error, which was repeated thousands of times, convincing millions that spinach was a great source of iron compared to other veggies, all faked but caused by citing citations of citations without checking.
Alfie Kohn@alfiekohn.bsky.social · 6d agoFascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Here is a cartoon I did of Danny Trejo & Harvey Keitel. Fuck ICE. Pen and ink on paper.
The only doc who would prescribe T in Indiana when I lived there insisted on doing a “prostate exam” on all his trans guy patients and hit on them (us) constantly. His license was later revoked. I can only imagine how he manipulated trans women patients.
Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · last wk.Following along @mzakharuk.bsky.social's reread of @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl". Barely any cis people understand the rampant rape culture inherent to the medical gatekeeping of trans healthcare. These "professionals" know the power they hold over trans people and often abuse it.
“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
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What Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd was a public extrajudicial execution. Keep that in mind when you say we haven't had a public execution since 1936. We have, actually. Many times. They're called police murders.
Missouri Voters Vote NO on Amendment 8. It's a constitutional sheriff movement scam to load fee for their retirement back on court fees. It incentivizes writing tickets. Good explainer by @tonymess.bsky.social St Louis Post-Dispatch article via Wayback Machine archive.today/2026.10.07-1...
Andrea González-Ramírez@andreagonram.bsky.social · 2w agoMidway through my call with @nbedera.bsky.social, I was so shocked I asked: "How are you not incandescent with rage every day?" If you want to understand the Cornell case and why universities fail survivors, read this. You may become furious too. (Gift link.) www.thecut.com/article/trum...
May their names be curses on the lips of their children’s children.
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 2w agoThey cut down the "grandmother" tree.
